PENSIONER'S CONDUCT
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 14th November. Commenting upon a case referred to the . Eeturned Soldiers' Behabilitation Commission, in which the pension had been stopped as a result of allegations concerning the recipient's mode of life, the chairman (Mr. J. S. Barton) said that in such cases an important principle was involved. He said it was quite possible that a man living away from his wife and with another woman might possibly be a better map. and citizen in many respects than one who was observing the conventions. However, society, which paid the money to subsidise these men, had a right to draw a line and assert that any departure from that line should debar a man from receiving a pension. The question that arose when the boards were given judicial powers in this respect was,, where the line 'should be drawn. Wherever it was drawn it was certain that hardship would fall on someone.
The chairman said the Commission would forward on the particulars of the case in point as far as it concerned tho principle involved.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 10
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